| 1966 | Born in Beijing, China |
| 1989 | Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China |
| Currently | Lives and works in Beijing, China |
| 2016 | Song Dong's Communal Courtyard, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada |
| 2015-16 | Beijing Voice: Song Dong Surplus Value, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 2015 | Song Dong, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany Song Dong: Life is Art, Art is Life, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands |
| 2014 | Song Dong: Regenerate, Baró, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2013 | Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks III, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA The Wisdom of the Poor: A Communal Courtyard, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA 36 Calendars, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China Song Dong Doing Nothing, Pace, New York, USA Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia Waste Not, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia |
| 2012 | Waste Not, Barbican Art Gallery and The Curve gallery, London, UK |
| 2011 | Biennale di Venezia- 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Song Dong + Yin Xiuzhen: The Way of Chopsticks III, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China & New York, USA Song Dong: Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| 2010 | Waste Not, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada China in Four Seasons: Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
| 2009 | The End of Video, LOOP, Seoul, South Korea Waste Not, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2008 | Eating the City in Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Song Dong, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China |
| 2006 | The Way of Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA Eating the City Project, Selfridges Public Art Program, London, UK |
| 2005 | The 59th Miunte, Times Square, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Water Works, Chinese Arts Center, Manchester, UK |
| 2003 | SARS Times, ISE Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Chopsticks, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Edible Pen Jing (Bonsai), Gasworks International Art Studio, London, UK Song Dong in London, Tablet Gallery, London, UK |
| 1998 | Temporary Office Construction, Tao Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1997 | Look, Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China |
| 1995 | Bei Fang, Zhao Yao Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1994 | Song Dong: Forty-One Middle School Video Installation, Forty-One Middle School, Beijing, China |
| 1992 | Song Dong: Show of Oil Paintings, Culture Palace, Beijing, China |
| 2023 | A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China, Hirshhorn, Washington D.C, USA |
| 2016 | Art, Accumulation, and Objects in Asian Megacities, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA On the Table, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 2015 | Text as Image, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA De/Constructing China: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection, Asia Society, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Polit Sheer Form!: Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua, Leng Lin, Queens Museum, New York, USA Today’s Specials, Pace Gallery, London, UK We Love Video This Summer, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China Where is China?, The Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal Landscape, Abstracted, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA |
| 2013 | Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: More Light, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia Duchamp and/or/in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Insightful Charisma - Inaugural Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 2012 | The First Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, China Copenhagen Art Festival, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark The 1st Xinjiang Biennale, Wulumuqi Exhibition Centre, Wulumuqi, China Real Life Stories, Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway MOVE ON ASIA – The End of Video Art, Alt Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea The 2nd China Western Biennale, Yinchuan Museum of Art, Yinchuan, China |
| 2011 | Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China 54th Venice Biennale: ILLUMINations, The Giardini, Venice, Italy Yokohama Triennale 2011, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Moving Image in China: 1988–2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China The Couple Show, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China |
| 2010 | Absolute Distance, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China Kuandu Biennale 2010-Memories and Beyond, Kuandu Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan Liverpool Biennial ’10, Liverpool, UK The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Australia |
| 2009 | Taswir-Photo Tour, Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany 1989, Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien (Museumquartier), Vienna, Austria The View from Elsewhere, Small Acts, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia The Photograph of Nonexistent, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Tokyo, Japan SU: MBISORI, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea China Urban, Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, USA Re-Imagining Asia, New Art Gallery, Wassail, UK |
| 2008 | Made in China: Contemporary Chinese Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2007 | Net: Re-imagining Space, Time and Culture, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China |
| 2006 | News, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China 38 Solo Exhibitions, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China Exposed: Black Box & Crystal Ball, Debating Chamber, London, UK |
| 2005 | Water, Water Everywhere, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation, Miami, USA Elegance of Silence, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK |
| 2004 | City Signal, National Studio of Contemporary Art, France The Monk & The Demon: Contemporary Art from China, Contemporary Art Museum, Lyon, France Officina Asia, Contemporary Art Museum, Bologna, Rimini and Cesena, Italy Concrete Horizons, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, UK |
| 2003 | Together with Farmer-Workers, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Alors, la chine, Chinese Contemporary Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Every Day: Contemporary Art from China, Japan, Korea, and Thailand, Kunstforeningen Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2002 | What?: A Tale in Free Images, Memling Museum, Bruges, Belgium The Fourth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea |
| 2001 | Shot in the Face, Earl lu Gallery, Lasalle Gallery, Singapore Living in Time, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Germany Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Norway |
| 2000 | Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China Cancel: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA Unusual & Usual, Yuangong Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 1999 | Fictitious Future, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Transience: Chinese Art at the End of 20th Century, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA Fast>>Forward: New Chinese Video Art, Contemporary Art Center, Macao Cities on the Move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Beijing Document, Goethe Institut, Beijing, China |
| 1998 | It’s Me!: A Profile of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Forbidden City, Beijing, China Inside Out, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA |
| 1997 | Demonstration of Video Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1996 | The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China In the Name of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| 1995 | Open Your Eyes, Close Your Mouth, Capital Normal University Museum, Beijing, China |
| 1994 | Art Agenda, Han Muo Art Center, Beijing, China Another Lesson: Do You Want to Play with Me?, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1992 | Oil Paintings, Cultural Palace, Beijing, Chin |
| 1990 | First Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting in Japan, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan |
| 1989 | The 7th National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing China |
| 1988 | New Time Painting Exhibition of Oil Painting, China National Gallery, Beijing, China |
| 1987 | The 1st National Exhibition of Oil Painting, Shanghai Exhibition Centre, China |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada |
| Asia Society Museum, New York, NY, USA |
| Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
| Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA |
| Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China |
| Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA |